penance

英 [ˈpenəns]

美 [ˈpenəns]

n.  补赎; 悔罪; 修和圣事; 苦差事; 被迫做的事

复数：penances　

GRE

BNC.15780 / COCA.16731

牛津词典

noun

• 补赎；悔罪；修和圣事
  an act that you give yourself to do, or that a priest gives you to do in order to show that you are sorry for sth you have done wrong
  1. an act of penance
     赎罪善功
  2. to do penance for your sins
     为自己的罪过做补赎
• 苦差事；被迫做的事
  something that you have to do even though you do not like doing it
  1. She regards living in New York as a penance; she hates big cities.
     她把住在纽约视为一件苦事——她讨厌大都市。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 补赎；悔罪；忏悔
  If you dopenancefor something wrong that you have done, you do something that you find unpleasant to show that you are sorry.
  1. ...a time of fasting, penance and pilgrimage...
     斋戒、补赎和朝圣的时代
  2. The Koran recommends fasting as a penance before pilgrimages.
     《古兰经》劝告人们在朝圣前斋戒，以作为一种补赎。

英英释义

noun

• a Catholic sacrament
• voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
  Synonym:self-mortificationself-abasement
• remorse for your past conduct
  Synonym:repentancepenitence

双语例句

• Jogging becomes a sort of penance for our sins of gluttony, greed, and waste.
  慢跑成了我们对自己的暴殄，贪婪，以及浪费的赎罪。
• You catch murderers to pay off your penance.
  你抓凶手就是为了赎自己的罪。
• The king of the gods had to perform penance to atone for his transgression.
  众神之王不得不以苦行来为自己的过错赎罪。
• It is my firm resolve that if I cannot find a shady shelter and a companion for my penance, I shall never turn ascetic.
  这是我坚定的决心，如果我找不到一个荫凉的住处和一个忏悔的伴侣，我将永远不会变成一个苦行者。
• Yeah. I'm doing penance for forgetting her birthday last week.
  是啊。我是在为上星期忘了她生日赎罪。
• He believed the death of his child was penance for his sins.
  他认为孩子的死是对他罪过的惩罚。
• They are doing penance for their sins.
  他们正在为自己所犯的罪而悔过。
• If I have taken a wrong direction would I, like Peter, do the one any only thing that can invert the wrong direction: penance and conversion?
  是否我像伯多禄一样，站了个错误方位，我是否做了那唯一能翻转错误方位的行动，悔改和转变？
• We must do penance for our sins.
  我们必须苦修赎罪。
• And this is his penance too, to live without us.
  这也是对他的惩罚，失去我们而生活。